Coexistence

Doctor: Your report has arrived. You have cancer.

Patient: Not sure if I wanted to know, though I had suspected something like that.

Doctor: We might have to go for surgery.

Patient: That will be costly, isn’t?

Doctor: Less costly than all other options, or the only other option.

Patient: Sure we cannot coexist - cancer and I? I believe in coexistence.

Doctor: Cancer doesn’t.

Patient: May be my cancer is different.
Doctor: God bless you.